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The Probate Court is lioldcn at the Probate Office 

 once a month. 



All the above-mentioned Courts, excepting the 

 Probate Court, are holden in the Court House, a spa- 

 cious and elegant granite building in Court street. 



The Supreme Court of the United States is held in 

 Washington, and has but one session annually. It 

 consists of a Chief Justice and eight Associate Jus- 

 tices, who reside in different States. The Chief Jus- 

 tice, the Hon. Roger B. Taney, of Maryland, receives 

 a salary of $5,000 per annum, and the Associate 

 Judges $4,500 each. 



The United States are also divided into nine 

 Judicial Circuits, in each of which a Circuit Court is 

 held serni-annually, by a Justice of the Supreme 

 Court, and the District Judge of the State or district 

 in which the Court sits. The United States are also 

 divided into forty-three districts, in which District 

 Courts are held by thirty-five judges. 



The educational institutions of Massachusetts are 

 not surpassed by those of any other country in the 

 world. There are now in Boston 197 schools with 

 20,000 pupils in attendance. These schools are sus- 

 tained at the public charge. The following sums 

 were paid from the City Treasury in support of these 



